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 386 THE KINGDOMS OF THE SOUTH fifth day of the sixth fortnight of the rainy season in the eighth regnal year. Several Pallava grants are known to have been issued from the court at Palakkada, and it is reasonable to assume that Ugrasena of Palakka was a Pallava, a kinsman and subordinate of the King of Kanchi, like Hasti-varman of Vengi. An early inscription of ap- proximately the same period, found in Mysore, mentions a grant of land " on the shore of the western ocean ' as having been made by the Pallava sovereign of Kanchi. From all these particulars the conclusion may be drawn that in the fourth century three Pallava chiefs were established at Kanchi, Vengi, and Palakkada, the latter two being subordinate to the first, and that Pal- lava rule extended from the Godavari on the north to the Pandya boundary, or the Southern Vellaru River, on the south, while it stretched across Mysore from sea to sea. A raja named Simha-varman H, son of the Crown Prince Vishnugopa previously mentioned, issued a grant in the eighth year of his reign from Dasanapura. His father's grant and this document, when read to- gether, give a complete genealogy of the Kings of Kanchi for five generations and an equal number of reigns, covering a period of about a century, but, un- fortunately, neither the initial nor the terminal year of this period can be fixed with precision. Numerous documents executed by both Pallava and Chalukya kings during the sixth, seventh, and eighth